"Chances are this will be more of a goodbye session than hello.

When Tigers president and general manager Dave Dombrowski gets together with the media at Comerica Park on Tuesday for what's become his annual State of the Team discussion, he'll no doubt be asked about offseason plans.

And about the Tigers' needs for 2012.

On neither front, however, is he expected to be as verbose as he'll be about the players to whom it's likely the Tigers will be saying goodbye.

When Dombrowski doesn't plan to re-sign players who have become free agents, he's recently been up front about saying so. At least he was last year when addressing the futures of Johnny Damon and Jeremy Bonderman."